In the Absence of Struggle

As Klu lay sprawled on his mother's dented casket, his back stung as did the reality of his failed suicide at the grave. Maybe his dad was right:

Man makes plans, God laughs.

Was Klu's hobby of collecting grave rubbings part of a higher plan?

Was it God's hand that drove him on a quest to the largest tree in the world to restore what was wrongfully taken from his parents?

And was the derecho storm destiny, when its mass outage freed Klu to break into the Father of Our Country's tomb and ste...